The story is out that the FAA is INTENTIONALLY causing massive airline flight delays to coerce the public into voting for tax increases. See the WALL ST JOURNAL editorial below.
Never have we seen a more stark difference between President Reagan and President Obama. Does ANYONE believe for an instant that the FAA brass would have organized such a work stoppage if Reagan were in office? Remember what happened to the air traffic controllers who decided to go on strike. Reagan fired ’em.
Not only is Obama tolerating this DE FACTO work stoppage, he’s ENCOURAGING it. The FAA bureaucrats fully understand that they are acting with the support of the White House. The FAA bosses likely will get raises and bonuses rather than the pink slips they so richly deserved.
There are a thousand ways to solve the FOUR PERCENT cut in the FAA budget. Any one of my readers could propose practical, workable remedies over their morning coffee.
Congress stands ready to support any bill to fix this problem (bills already in the hopper), but Obama could properly deal with this minor funding problem by executive order (an instance where such a solution is appropriate).
Obama IS the enemy of the people of America. And it’s not just “unintended consequences” — Obama is actively working to harm his own country. He knows what he is doing. And the mainstream press won’t call him on it.
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The Wall Street Journal
April 24, 2013
The FAA Strikes Again, the FAA Brags
The bureaucracy revels in its own failures.
The Federal Aviation Administration claims the sequester spending cuts are forcing it to delay some 6,700 flights a day, but rarely has a bureaucracy taken such joy in inconveniencing the public.
Though the FAA says it is strapped for cash, the air traffic control agency managed to find the dollars to update its interactive “command center” tool on its website so passengers can check if their airports are behind schedule due to what it calls sequester-related “staffing” problems. Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn noticed this rare case of FAA technological entrepreneurship and fired off a letter Wednesday protesting what he called the agency’s “full blown media rollout” to hype the flight delays.
That had zero impact on FAA bosses, who were on Capitol Hill rationalizing their dereliction. But after Mr. Coburn published his letter on his website, FAA regional employees wrote to blow the whistle on their bosses. As one email put it, “the FAA management has stated in meetings that they need to make the furloughs as hard as possible for the public so that they understand how serious it is.